James G. Leyden, Jr.

Director

One Rodney Square
920 North King Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
302.651.7620 - direct
302.498.7620 - fax
leyden@rlf.com
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Assistant Contact

Dawn M. Hasson
302.651.7519 - direct
hasson@rlf.com

James G. Leyden, Jr. focuses on a wide variety of matters involving Delaware limited liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships, statutory trusts and corporations. A director in the firm’s Limited Liability Company and Partnership Advisory Group, Jim is actively involved in the organization, structuring and operation of LLCs and partnerships, including structured finance transactions; private equity investment fund matters; hedge fund transactions; merger, conversion, acquisition, and dissolution and winding-up transactions; joint venture transactions; strategic alliance transactions; and financing transactions.

Jim routinely renders legal opinion letters on limited liability company and limited partnership matters. He is co-reporter of the Supplemental TriBar LLC Opinion Report: Opinions on LLC Membership Interests by the TriBar Opinion Committee; 66 Bus. Law. 1065 (2011). Jim is also co-reporter of Third-Party Closing Opinions: Limited Liability Companies by the TriBar Opinion Committee; 61 Bus. Law. 679 (2006).

Professional and Community Activities

  • Delaware State Bar Association, Corporation Law Section 
    • Limited Liability Company and Partnership Subcommittee responsible for drafting amendments to Delaware’s LLC and partnership statutes
  • American Bar Association, Business Law Section
  • American Bar Association, TriBar Opinion Committee
  • American Bar Association, Legal Opinion Committee

Professional Recognition

  • AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Chambers USA (Corporate/M&A: Alternative Entities)
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law, Structured Finance Law)
  • Best Lawyers' Wilmington, DE Securitization & Structured Finance Law Lawyer of the Year
  • Lawdragon 500
  • Super Lawyers

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Education

  • J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1987
  • B.S.A, magna cum laude, Villanova University, 1982

Admitted to Practice

  • Delaware